Category: Cost

Addressing the Vulnerability of Low-Income Communities to Extreme Weather On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy hit the northeastern United States and became the deadliest and largest Atlantic hurricane of the year and the second costliest in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina. Heeding the lessons that emerged from the blundered response to Katrina in New Orleans More Info »

(The following article is a press release from UC Davis) Salmon and other native freshwater fish in California will likely become extinct within the next century due to climate change if current trends continue, ceding their habitats to non-native fish, predicts a study by scientists from the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of More Info »

(The following article was written by Jennifer Chu and originally published by the MIT News Office) A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment. But what’s surprising to researchers isn’t the size of More Info »

(The following article was written by Joe Romm and reprinted from Clean Technica. It originally appeared in Climate Change; The image (from Climate Crocks via Arctic Sea Ice Blog) comes from a 2007 GRL research paper by Stroeve et al.)

The following article is a May 3, 2013, news release from Nasa. The image above is taken from NASA’s computer animation of the World’s weather patterns for the next 140 years. Note the brown cloud extending over San Diego, that is a scarcity of rain. The blue band, to the South, predicts an increase of More Info »

The United States was subjected to many severe climate-related extreme weather over the past two years. In 2011 there were 14 extreme weather events—floods, drought, storms, and wildfires—that each caused at least $1 billion in damage. There were another 11 such disasters in 2012. These extreme weather events reflect part of the unpaid bill from More Info »

Justin Gillis, of the New York Times Green Blog, titles his introduction to the recently released Federal Advisory Committee Draft Climate Assessment Report” as “An Alarm in the offing on Climate Change.” Personally, I find it reminiscent of a modern day Book of Revelation – only many of the predicted calamities are aimed directly at More Info »